Section 5463 Of Article 3. Procedure For Abatement From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 5. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 3.
5463
. Any health officer or governing board of any city, county,
sanitary district, or other district having the power to operate and
maintain a sewerage system, having served written notice upon the
owner or reputed owner of land upon which there is a dwelling house,
and the owner or reputed owner, after 30 days, having refused,
neglected, or failed to connect the dwelling house, together with all
toilets, sinks, and other plumbing therein, properly vented, and in
a sanitary manner, with the adjoining street sewer, may construct the
same at a reasonable cost, and the person doing that work at the
request of the health officer or governing board has a lien upon that
real estate for his or her work done and materials furnished, and
the work done and materials furnished shall be held to have been done
and furnished at the instance of the owner or reputed owner, or
person claiming or having any interest therein. The governing board
may pay all or any part of the cost or price of such connection to
the person or persons who furnished labor, materials, or equipment
for the same, and, to the extent the governing board pays the cost or
price of the connection, it shall succeed to and have all the
rights, including the lien provided for above, of the person or
persons against the real estate and against the owner or reputed
owner thereof.
As an alternative power to the enforcement of the lien provided
for in this section, the governing body of the public agency
performing the work of connection to the public sewer may, by order
entered upon its minutes, declare that the amount of the costs of the
work and the administrative expenses incurred by the governing body
incident to the proceedings, together with other charges uniformly
applicable within the jurisdiction of the governing body for the
connection of the premises to the public sewer, shall be transmitted
to the assessor and tax collector of the public agency, whereupon it
shall be the duty of those officers to add the amount of the
assessment to the next regular bill for taxes levied against the lot
or parcel of land.
The liens provided for by this section shall be enforced in the
same manner as those provided for by Part 6 (commencing with Section
8000) of Division 4, of the Civil Code.
The governing board may also use the procedures in Section 5474
for levying the costs incurred for the construction of the
improvements for the connection of the premises to the public sewer.